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Going Driftless

By Jeffrey Broberg | December 2, 2020 |

Geologist Jeff Broberg explores the origins of the Driftless Region

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Driftless Region, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Research, Science, Series Tagged With: science

Great Lakes Estuaries

By Stephanie Hemphill | October 11, 2020 |

Estuaries in the Great Lakes are among the most productive, life-supporting and interesting environments on the planet.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Nature, Research, Resource Management, Science, Water quality

Permitting Minnesota’s mines: what can we learn?

By Stephanie Hemphill | May 7, 2020 |

Northshore processing plant

A deep dive into the permitting process for the decades-old Northshore mine and the proposed PolyMet mine reveals a lot about the flaws in the system.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Policy, Resource Management, Science Tagged With: Pollution, Regulation

Flexing mussels

By Greg Seitz | April 13, 2020 |

The life-and-death secrets of mussels.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Nature, Research, Science, St. Croix River, wildlife Tagged With: aquatic life, mussels, science, Wildlife

Audible underwater worlds

By Stephanie Hemphill | February 15, 2020 |

Researchers drill a hole to sink a hydrophone into an ice-covered lake.

A researcher records sounds under the surface of Minnesota lakes and hopes to learn whether humans are disturbing the lives of the denizens of the deep.

Filed Under: Fish, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Research, Resource Management, Science, Uncategorized, Water quality Tagged With: fish, Great Lakes, lakes, research

Confronting Great Lakes invaders

By Stephanie Hemphill | October 15, 2019 |

Mid-ocean ballast water exchange is working well to keep non-native aquatic organisms from invading the Great Lakes, but scientists are racing to find more secure solutions.

Filed Under: Fish, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Policy, Research, Resource Management, Science, Water quality, wildlife Tagged With: ais, Great Lakes, invasive species

John Moyle: Minnesota’s Aldo Leopold

By Stephanie Hemphill and John Pastor | June 12, 2019 |

Learning about a man whose holistic thinking and scientific rigor continue to protect Minnesota’s natural resources decades after his death.

Filed Under: History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Science

Will woodland caribou survive in the Lake Superior basin?

By Nancy Langston | January 14, 2019 |

Woodland caribou on Michipicoten Island in Lake Superior. Credit: Christian Schroeder.

Human policy decisions may pose a more imminent threat to caribou than climate change.

Filed Under: Climate Change, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Research, Science, wildlife Tagged With: climate change, Wildlife

Uncovering the secret lives of wolves

By Alissa Johnson | June 28, 2018 |

A creek running through an old beaver meadow, or beaver pond that has drained and become a meadow, near Junction Bay in Voyageurs National Park. Photo by Tom Gable.

A study in Voyageurs National Park is revealing details about wolf predation on beavers, leading to new insights about the ways wolves hunt—breakthrough information helping scientists create a fuller picture of how wolves impact the larger ecosystem.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Science, wildlife Tagged With: voyageurs national park, wolves

“Indian Country is clearing its throat”

By Stephanie Hemphill | November 1, 2017 |

Winter on the St. Louis River. Photo by Ivy Vainio

Tribes are working on many fronts to push Minnesota to do a better job of protecting the environment.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Resource Management, Science, Water quality Tagged With: conservation, environmental review, Lake Superior, mining, Nature, Northern Minnesota, policy, resource management, rivers, St. Louis River, tribes

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